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Business / 14 Jun 2025

Designing With Constraints: How Limitations Fuel Creativity

When you’re first handed a design brief filled with restrictions like tight deadlines, limited color palettes, and strict brand rules, it can feel like you’re being boxed in.

But what if those constraints are actually an advantage?

Many great design solutions don’t come from unlimited freedom, they come from figuring out how to make something work within clear boundaries.

Designing with constraints isn’t about settling for less. It’s about learning how to focus, prioritize, and find clever ways to solve problems.

In fact, limitations often lead to more thoughtful, original work because they force designers to think critically and get creative with what’s available.

Today, we explore how designing with constraints can actually be a good thing and how you can achieve great outcomes even when working with limitations.

Minimalist Graphic Design / 2 Jun 2025

Design Minimalism in 2025: Evolved, Not Extinct

Minimalism has long been a go-to style in the world of design, where simple layouts, muted palettes, and clean typography thrived across various platforms.

But over the past few years, many predicted its decline. With bold type, rich visuals, and maximalist design making a comeback, some even assumed minimalism was on its way out.

But in 2025, it’s clear that minimalism isn’t extinct. It’s evolved.

Minimalism has matured into something more nuanced. It’s no longer just about stripping away, now it’s about clarity, focus, and intentionality.

Designers aren’t rejecting minimalism; they’re refining it. And the result is a new form of minimalism that still feels clean and modern, but with a bit more personality and purpose.

In this post, we’ll explore how minimalism has changed, why it still matters, and how to use it effectively in today’s design landscape.

Trends / 30 May 2025

Trendjacking With Design: Tap Into Viral Moments Without Going Off-Brand

Social media moves fast. One moment it’s a viral dance challenge, the next it’s a trending meme or a cultural event dominating every feed.

For brands and designers, this fast-paced environment creates a unique opportunity: trendjacking.

Done right, trendjacking lets your brand join the conversation, reach new audiences, and stay culturally relevant. But it’s also easy to miss the mark or feel off-brand.

That’s where design comes in. With the right visual marketing strategy, you can tap into trending moments while staying true to your tone, style, and audience.

In this post, we’ll explore what trendjacking is, how major brands have used it successfully, and how to create on-brand social media designs that ride the wave without going off course.

Trends / 25 Apr 2025

Icon Design in 2025: The Key Trends

Icons might be one of the most important – and underrated – examples of design in your portfolio. Here’s a look at icon design with some inspiring examples.

Icon elements are shown almost everywhere, but sometimes get produced as an afterthought. That shouldn’t be the case. Great icon design can be distinctive and add finesse and flair to a project.

Let’s take a look at what’s new, and what’s hot in icon design!

Trends / 13 Mar 2025

How to Stay Ahead of the Curve: Researching the Latest Design Trends

The design industry is constantly evolving, with new trends emerging every year.

Staying ahead of these changes isn’t just about keeping up—it’s about adapting, innovating, and maintaining relevance in a competitive market.

Whether you’re a graphic designer, UI/UX expert, or branding specialist, knowing what’s trending and why it matters can help you create work that feels fresh, modern, and impactful.

But how do you spot emerging trends before they become mainstream? And how do you ensure you’re using trends effectively rather than just following the crowd?

In this guide, we’ll explore the best ways to research, analyze, and incorporate cutting-edge design trends into your work.

Trends / 15 Jan 2025

Navigation Trends for 2025: Keeping It Simple and Intuitive

Website navigation design went through a series of phases over the past few years. So, what can we expect to see this year? Which navigation trends will be most popular and effective? Let’s have a look.

Over the years, designers found creative ways to make website navigation look cool and interesting. While most of those trends died off quickly, some of them, like mega-menus, off-canvas menus, and sticky navigation made it to the web design hall of fame and are still being used to this day.

In this post, we explore some of the popular navigation trends of the past few months and see which ones will be most effective this year. Without further ado, let’s dive in.

Trends / 8 Jan 2025

Scalable Design: Creating Graphics That Grow With Your Brand

Branding design is constantly changing these days. We see a new rebranding or logo remake at least every few weeks.

Most of these logo revamps and brand identity shifts are hit-or-miss situations. Some brands even had to roll back to their original designs after backlash from customers and fans.

The best way to avoid having to go through such disasters is to create designs that can grow with your brand. We call this method “scalable design.”

Today, we explore the topic of scalable design discussing why it’s important and how you can use this methodology to create better, future-proof branding designs.

Trends / 25 Dec 2024

Skeuomorphism vs. Flat Design: Where Are We Now?

Skeuomorphism and flat design are two of the most dominant design trends across web and mobile UI design. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.

Today, we only see small glimpses of Skeuomorphism-inspired user interfaces. And the original flat design style is no longer being used by designers. However, some forms of these two design trends are still very much alive and have influenced the modern website and mobile UI designs we use today.

What happened to these two design trends? How do designers use skeuomorphism and flat design styles today? Let’s dive in and find out.

Trends / 24 Dec 2024

Looking Back to Look Forward: Lessons From Design in 2024

Today, we take a glimpse at some of the biggest 2024 design trends to learn from what worked best as well as the failures to plan ahead for the new year.

2024 was big year for every industry in design. With the buzz and fear around AI beginning to settle down, in 2024 we saw many new advancements and improvements in both the web and graphic design worlds.

There is a lot to unpack so let’s dive right into these design reflections.

Graphics / 27 Nov 2024

Texture in Digital Design: Adding Tangible Appeal to the Virtual World

Textures are an incredibly useful tool that can completely transform the look and feel of a design.

With a single layer of texture or a few brush strokes, you can give a vintage look to a modern illustration or instantly add depth to a shallow design.

Even though it often goes unnoticed, textures play a pivotal role in almost all kinds of digital designs. Even some of the most popular logos, websites, and app interfaces use textures to create more interesting and memorable designs.

Today, we take a closer look at the many uses of texture in digital design and how you can use it to transform your projects with a sense of realism and character.

Trends / 12 Nov 2024

20+ New & Modern Color Trends 2025

Color is the main component of every design. Even though it may seem like colors always remain the same, it’s actually something that is ever-changing. And as a result, it makes way for new color trends every year.

If you’re preparing to start a new design project, staying up-to-date on the latest trends is important. It’s the key to making your designs relevant and appealing to the current audiences.

Today we take a look at some breakout color trends that will keep your graphic elements looking fresh. Rather than just talking about different trends, we wanted to go deeper. So we found real-life examples to show how each trend is being used by different industries.

What kind of color trends will be popular this year? Will there be new trends in color schemes? Or would any old trends make a comeback? Here are our predictions.

Trends / 5 Nov 2024

25+ Web Design Trends to Watch in 2025

The average life of a website is three years. And design elements – such as color and typography – often get updated more frequently than that. That’s why it is so important to keep up with web design trends.

Doing this allows you to make small tweaks to your design today so that it won’t be out of date tomorrow.

This guide will help you create an on-point design plan all year long, incorporating some of the best trends for 2025.